Security Advisory
CVE-1999-1585
7.2
Vulnerability Description
The (1) rcS and (2) mountall programs in Sun Solaris 2.x, possibly before 2.4, start a privileged shell on the system console if fsck fails while the system is booting, which allows attackers with physical access to gain root privileges.
Published Date
December 31, 1999
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory